Gloucester, VA, USA
((HOAX??) Watching this super bright obj. in sky for several mounts now. Can see in at night, dawn, and dusk clearly. ((Venus??))
Report quality: Low21/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2017-03-12
- Where
- Gloucester, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 25 seconds
- Geo
- 37.414, -76.526 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-gloucester-va-2017-a549fd
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Gloucester, VA has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 104 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.